₦airaland Forum

angela98: I Dont care what he feels right now. After all his name wasn't mentioned. Yeah He is a very nice guy though. Simple, talks when necessary, not rich but hardworking. My only criticism is that he is too westernized. Too much Oyibo thinking. He forgot he is in Nigeria where certain behaviour is not a norm.

Well, stuffs happen. Had same fears about a past heartthrob. Friends said I should have seen the cup half- full. Maybe they are right.

angela98: you are right. He has seen and read the post. He sent me me an email to ask why am still bearing grudge... Oh I love nairaland it helps me to express my mind thoughtfully.

Lol. He's a cool guy then, some people won't take kindly to you outing them on their sexuality, especially online. He must really like you.

angela98: I met this guy on naira land. Both of us were jobless at that time because we are both always on nairaland. We started by commenting on and quoting each others post. One thing led to the other we exchanged phone numbers and arranged to meet up at shoprite. On that day he got there before me, waiting at the car park. When I arrived I was expecting to meet a black average simple young man. Instead I met a very very handsome humble mix race guy.I was blown away. He was so into me. We settled at a restaurant, catch up on a lot of things, got to know more about each other, we had something to eat and drink etc....he saw me off to my car and we kissed and started dating from there until I found out he dates men as well. He is bisexual. That ain't cool with me I dumped him at once. Love disappeared. Now am single and waiting for the right man...

What if he reads your post a d sees this?

Evergreen123: visit Enugu, onitsha n owerri threads.
I just wanted ur brother to appreciate how Oshogbo looks better dan the East

Next time post links to those threads instead of posting pictures targeted at annoying others. You didn't chose the tribe you come from and you could as well be arguing for Hausas or Yorubas in another life.

The fact that others may not post corny pictures of the east may be because they don't care that much to bother themselves about it, not because there are no places there to take mocking picture from. But I'm sure you know thus yourself.

Its all fun and games sometime, but if you're serving in the southwest, it won't be funny anymore if your start living in an environment of hate will it?

Ain't you people done with your back and forth tribal bickering. Its getting stale or maybe its just me.

Ngozi evergreen123, save your camera and show us beautiful pictures of your place or places. Don't be fixated with negativity. You will be eating yourself up with bad emotions in the end.

Are you in Oshogbo? I might come there soon. Let's meet up

Evergreen123: The place finer than everywhere in the east

Chinois has given his camera to Ngozi as NYSC parting gift. Smh.

He refused to join after taking a selfie

Guy your warped sarcasm is top shelf.

iwonbaoko: I sympathize with your sentiment but I am disappointed with your resistance to logic. I want what is good for my country.It is to my advantage if the youth have a better deal but I will tell you a few things for free.Education is not all about going to university and even when university education was free (in the days of Segun Okeowo)and we were given free food and had cleaners come to clean our rooms etc it was not for everybody. Never was and never will be There was a limited supply of university places from day 1.

The starting point of educating any population is literacy. Free education upto secondary school is a fair contract with government. Even in America they will bargain with you to join the Army before they pay your tuition if you return from Kabul After secondary school if you join the police,customs civil service etc with O or A level you will get plenty of "education" during your career. Look at the biographies of our founding fathers or elders like Afe Babalola, Awo etc they did not get free university education many worked as clerks or with compnies like UAC
Looking at it from a national benefit perspective government should educate a population for reasons on national interest not idealism.The focus on university education does not help us if we have white men managing the National Assembly Complex,building our roads,bridges and other major civil engineering projects.More recently it is Chinese "engineers" . FYI most of these people are not graduates. Government needs to focus resources on skill acquisition not certificate acquisition. It has always been the case that Nigerians saw "education" in university as a gateway to a better life. Over the next 20 years there will be multiple opportunities in our power sector which is set to explode.Sadly all our graduate engineers are worse than useless and many of those jobs will go overseas. Many of these so called graduates got into university by fraud and often graduate by fraud. Without fear of contradiction I can assert anywhere that very few Nigerian graduates of today can write an essay comparable to a secondary school student in the 70s. Any so called education spending by goverment should focus on upgrading the skills of those MOST LIKELY to find employment and so government should not be paying for Law,Politics,Botany and all that nonsense.
In the oil sector today we have hundreds of Filipinos taking thousands of dollars monthly are they graduates? Even to be a "maritime cook" requires certification and we have White Cooks from France in our off-shore facilities on huge wages. Are they graduates? No one pays anybody for what they know but for what they do or can do.Skills skills skills. Whether it is truck driving or crane operation or deep water welding those are the areas where I believe government should put our scarce resources

Pls do not misconstrue the argument for better funding for education, amongst other govt responsibilities, as saying they should give undue priority to university education, no.

Funding of education should include funding for the training of technicians and the provision of the structure that provide this; and even for artisans. Where do we have cogent govt input for artisans in this country?

Pls realise that regardless of the level of govt funding and as regards to income, most people still.pay through their nose for education in this country.

The govt cannot convince anyone of its limited financial resources while belching due to corrupt financial constipation.

Frankenstein: APC won't bring any change. For all I know, they are worse than the PDP. Fashola is in the same APC and LASU is still on strike because of school fees hike.

Honestly none of the parties really impress me. Its a case of choosing between -8 and -9.

I have a feeling that a war is coming. It might be coated in ethnic, religious or political garments; but it will essentially be a class war.

bushdoc9919: The fact of the matter is that thanks to the Govt telling ASUU last year that they did not have any extra money for universities...increased fees became likely. Unless,we remove the fuel subsidy.



Rebased which economy? Calculate GDP per capita...and that rebasing looks like small change

We don't have a proper industrial economy....where we develop an idea and build an industry out of said idea.We just have telecoms industries which make money off foreign inventions. We do not manufacture any of the components that we use in our telecom industries at all, not even phones.



And the problem is that because Nigerians over dependent on oil...we do not manufacture the components needed for constant electricity,water supply etc...we import them at high prices.....and repair them at high prices too. We are underdeveloped because we rely too much on oil . (Read the article Pass the books,hold the oil for the reason why....link here ...http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/friedman-pass-the-books-hold-the-oil.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)

Plus,what do you think is an educated person? The problem is that you Nigerians think an educated person is someone with a university degree. Meanwhile, we have a scarcity of technicians because millions of Nigerian youth waste their money getting paper education...instead of getting a technical education. So we have millions with useless qualifications for office jobs......and very few technical people......people who actually help your economy grow.

Again, you keep puting the cart before the horse and its this same mentality that most of our govt representatives have had. Let me put this straight:

1. I drew your attention to the rebased economy to negate your theory that Nigerians are begging for oil, many Nigerians don't have that luxury, they are just individually making a success of themselves, and the govt has decided to glory in it. Touché.

2. Our government have consistently shown a penchant to throw its arms up at anything that demand mental strength or moral integrity. The lack of these two breed corruption, by these same people who are the fattest cows, argueably of any economy by the money they vote to themselves both legally and illegally; still shirk their responsibility and we bear the brunt as usual. The least we would appreciate is to get something right!

3. You have given the normal politician excuse when they want to stop thinking and have time to just embezzle: pass the buck.

Whatever system we want to use to develop industrially will have educational input. Going by Nigeria's population, the number of people who even have higher education is not enough! You should know that it is not everyone that studies a subject that will go in that line, but the broadening of knowledge is essential.

Now you talk of the development of technicians. Have you thought of how this is going to be achievable if not by govt input? You think its not part of education. All successful economies that have a healthy number of technicians have at some time heavily invested in their "education". Most still do. Technicians don't just fly out of the blocks without a proper structure, except in Nigeria where the govt just wants the citizens to find their way.

4. You mentioned the fact that industries are not being setup in the country. Have you asked yourself why? Is it because the govt is funding education? Or that we can't seem to get simple essential govt responsibilities like electric power right? Is it the discouraging political and beareaucratic bottlenecks a coy has to face in setting up that will make them stay? Pls note that most companies thriving under our govt do so due to some form of political help in terms of policies for which the citizens still bear the brunt!

Finally, pls what is the fault of the ordinary citizens who just requires some form of education in this your argument?

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bushdoc9919: And what are you Nigerians doing with that education that you have been getting?

We don't have the innovative industrial economy that Finland has because you Nigerian graduates leave university and go and work in offices.....rather than develop ideas based on the education you have.

And you all beg govt for more oil money.

You Nigerians.....

You're mixing the priorities up. The way forward is not to cut off education to those who need it as a base for whatever aspiration they desire.

Nigeria just rebased its economy, it shows that non-oil sectors have contributed in large extents to the growth. This means that Nigerians are using whatever education they have to make a success of themselves, oil or not.

What has been the benefits for Nigerians from oil? Is it low fuel price? Constant electricity? Water supply? Good working environment? These are things more responsible economies take for granted. That we have come this far without govt help is a miracle that is not adduced to "begging for oil". Education has at least helped in this regard and you support that they take that out too?

Pray? While the govt hands off all these, what will they be doing? Why will our recurrent expenditure still be as high as 65% of our budget? In fact why will we still need a govt to rule and not lead us?

Why is that seat behind her looking like closed-couple water closet?

iwonbaoko: What is LMAO? is that short hand for poverty of ideas?
What is the population of Finland?? under 6 million= less than Lagos State
What is the GDP per capita $36000 and Nigeria $1800 = 20 times that of Nigeria
Nigeria has a GDP per capita of $1800 = 270000 Naira . This is NOT all government money but the TOTAL ECONOMIC OUTPUT of the nation
Bear in Mind that the Federal Government has only a fraction of that(10%) e.g with its recent budget of 4 trillion = 26 666 Naira per citizen
Finland is 20 times richer than Nigeria.
The FG with a budget of 27000 Naira per citizen will subsidize petrol , give you free education,build roads and pay salaries

Your analogy is like an okada rider's son saying that he wants a Blackberry phone because Dangote's son has one

What I wrote which I hope you read before your unsolicited quote is clear.
Is there any country with a population of 100 million that offers free university education.
Of what relevance is oil to the discussion. FYI oil is less than 30% of our GDP and not all the revenue from oil goes to government
Is money derived from oil different from money derived from selling fish or chicken? http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PETR.RT.ZS
In 2010 1.5 million people were admitted to university .What is the annual cost of giving these people genuine education that will add value to them and society. What is the optimal ratio of Lecturer/student or are we just turning out so called "graduates" no better that secondary students. Can government afford to pay 500000 on 1.5 million students annually? Are they the only ones in the country?
It is shameful that we have adults who presumably have been to some kind of tertiary education program who cannot analyze logically.

How do you think Finland achieved its goals of high GDP with moderate population? Is it not through education? Same education that is free in their country? Is it by outsourcing every government responsibility, taking the glory of the success of such outsourcing while enriching themselves doing nothing?

Peopla like to see just one side of a story. I read in another thread that our government will quickly copy anything from the west that makes them lazy while contributing to their pockets; anything that requires responsibility and responsive governance is sniffed at.

A revolution is coming, it might not just be the palatable one we imagined.

gratiaeo: No weapon in any arsenal is as formidable as minds of free men and women—-Ronald Reagan. APC should tell us what they have for Nigeria (Manifesto) and watch Us (masses) fight for them and that is if they have solution to our numerous problems. We as people can vote and defend our votes if APC is a way forward but it looks like they have nothing but propaganda and blames. APC member are liars

But what does PDP itself have for the people? Omisore hasn't articulated anything close to a plan. I'm not sure they will be disposed to a live debate of issues in Osun state. We need independent candidates in this country, an alternative to these recycled thieves ruining us!

[quote author=Okiki_Oluwa]I don't believe in 100%.
Most people don't really know footballers private lives.
Humility is defined by both characters displayed on the pitch & in private life.
The late Uche Okafor was a gentleman on the pitch, hence they call him gentle giant. But in real life, he's a wife beater. He died from depression.[/quote]Err..Uche Okechuckwu was the one called gentle giant. He was out starting '5'. Uche Okafor shuttled the bench, he was never called gentle...but this is none of my business, isn't it?

Its unfortunate, the op is immature, brash and saddeningly ignorant.

He had an opportunity to legitimately question the government of Osun on its education policy- both on Twitter and even here on this site- while airing his grievance with the status quo; but he decided to go the thuggish route.

I'm no politician, but I can easily sense from my perspective that you have something else on your mind against the govt. Why don't you say it maturely without the language attack?

The little girl said the govt is innovative. She is right. You lack of knowledge on the matter compared to the teenager and your subsequent shameful outburst on twitter is an indictment on your upbringing as is your education.

And you decided to save the tweets and bring them here? What were you expecting? A pat on the back for being an activist and putting the govt in its place?

Truckpusher: They know their boundaries my brother.

No my brother, they don't know their boundaries. I hope events don't prove me right though.

I have said in several.post that we mostly call for separation without looking realistically at "how" this will be done, and more importantly "what" happens after.

Will we become little Ukrains or Sudan or Eritrea. The story of the aftermath hasn't been good for Africans especially, not just because we don't think far unto the future and are only conserned with the present emotions; but because even when one part of the separation wants to progress, the others won't simply let it.

Again check Sudan out. Nigeria's aftermath may be even worse. I see us getting into the tit for tat continuous bombing of each other to settle personal scores ala Sunnis and and Shiites in the middle east. It is truly scary.

caseless: he said 'less likely' and not 'more likely'. I advice u read again.

You got what he's saying wrong. He made a mistake by putting "reserve" instead if "reverse". Correct this and read his post again, I'm sure it will make more sense.

The Uruguayan team lacks the necessary bite